In my musical travels, I have become accquainted with many DJ's and mashers. A particularly talented set I have recently heard are
called Corrupt DJ's. There are two of these so-called corrupt persons,
Kitchmix and his pal, Pellapushers Polyfonics. There are people that do
many types of mashers that specialize in certain types, such as Bobby Martini for wonderful pop tracks, Aekon and his skilled manner
with rock on rock sounds, and Guv'nor with a specialty in electro/drum and bass. But when you want a killer sound for clubs and
dancing, you can't go wrong reaching for a track by
Kitchmix & Corrupt DJ'S.
With sometimes heavy beats and lively tempos, Kitchmix has had people dancing for over ten years. Kitch's cut "Outside and Uninvited" (George Michael vs Freemasons) takes fluid vocals and starts your feet to moving so you just can't stop. It does this by using tracks you know, and combining them with tracks you don't know. That is the wonderful thing about mashes, they sound strangely familiar.
Kitchmix also branches out to other styles sometimes, like the still very danceable "Chelsea's Lip Gloss" (Lil Mama vs Fratellis). This particular track has a much different beat, but yet very addicting to the clubbing type.
For yet another sound, there is a track called "Wasting My Crazy Time" (Gnarls Barkley vs N-Dubz). I personally thought I never
wanted to hear another Gnarls Barkley' "Crazy" mash again, as some tracks get used way too much in the mash scene. But here again, you
find yourself loving a song and feeling fresh about it, which is truly amazing in itself. Kitch proves that you can revive any over-played track, if you just mash it with the right companion. As I mentioned above, Kitch also works with a friend known as Pellapushers Polyfonics, together they play as
Corrupt DJ'S.
If you're looking for some fine mashups, be sure and give the forum a look, you don't have to be a mixer to join.
A special event coming up with Kitchmix and Corrupt DJ'S is MASHUP SCHOOL DISCO THEME NIGHT. There are five confirmed acts already,
and any dancer will be lucky to be able to walk out on their own power after dancing with the likes of these top-notch
producers DJ - confirmed so far...
Bobby Martini
Spider
VJ Dano Five-0
The Corrupt
DJ's
Hardman
As it says on this page (pimpmytune.com/), "Only 37 days to go! Remember the dayz! Get yer uniform on and come and see us
play a whole night of Mash-Ups in the 1500 capacity Harlequin Suite at The Harlow Stadium! 9pm - 3am." Tickets: £10.00 Available from The Harlow Stadium Box Office Tel: 01279 426804 (option two)
Harlow Stadium
The Pinnacles
Roydon Road
Harlow, Essex
CM19 5DY
So if any of you are going to be in that vicinity, put on your dancing shoes and go, you won't find a better venue for mashups. In conclusion,
Kitchmix and
Corrupt DJ'S are your best entertainment value for your mashup dollar.
Mix of the week - The fine folks at b00mb0x.org/wordpress/ (b00mb0x.org/wordpress/) recently invited me to post at their great long mix site. Even
though I am known for dance/mash/trance mixes, I made a retro 90's mix called 90's
Galactica. It's my favorite 90's rock music made into a long mix. It won't give you the entire song, but it will make you want to hear the entire song. Find it
here:
b00mb0x.org/wordpress/2008/04/22/90s-galactica/
Mashup Tip of the Week: Always share your favorite mashes with others, or Sister Pella the mashup nun, will hit you on the knuckles
with a ruler.
Jim Hightower: THE WHITE HOUSE TORTURE TEAM (jimhightower.com)
This is one of those stories in the category of, "We knew this before we knew it." When the shocking Abu Ghraib photos appeared in 2004, depicting U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq, public revulsion and outrage swept the land. Yet, even as a few of the low-level participants were punished and called "bad apples," most Americans knew at a gut level that this debased behavior had to flow downward from a much higher level. Now we know it for a fact.
Alice Wynn: Bubbly Girl (Metro Spirit)
Colbie Caillat seems more like your sister than a singing sensation. The sunny, down-to-earth demeanor reflected in her music shines through the phone line across the Atlantic. For Caillat, she says hasn't really experienced the "celebrity" aspect of musicianship, and fame is still relatively new to her. "I'm not used to it, for the most part." And, like any true artist, she is dedicated to her craft and doesn't concern herself with the spotlight. "I'm always touring."
What is EasyAllocator?
Given a few inputs, EasyAllocator will develop a financial plan consisting of the following: 1) An Asset Allocation plan plan based on your time horizon, risk tolerance, and other factors, 2) An Asset Location strategy, which puts the right asset types in the right account types. 3) Specific mutual fund selections. There are over 10,000 mutual funds, but only 100 or so worth investing in.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Dance (athensnews.com)
Onna White was dancing for Michael Kidd when he suggested a series of steps that she thought was too difficult for the "Take Back Your Mink" number in "Guys and Dolls," so she complained, "That's easy for you to say. You're not wearing high heels." Mr. Kidd asked, "What size shoe do you wear?" Hearing the answer - 7 1/2 - he put on her high heels and danced the steps perfectly. After that, says Ms. White, "I shut my mouth and never doubted him again."
Go ahead and make it. I offer the following shot list
under a Creative Commons License and ask for nothing but story
credit.
Bait
by Michael Dare
A lonesome ugly man walks down a pier prepared to go fishing. He is
carrying a rod and reel, a tackle box, and a bucket. He sits down on a bench at
the end of the pier, opens his tackle box, and looks through his equipment. He
finds just the right hook, puts it on the line, adds a few weights, then looks
in another compartment for some lures.
He pulls out a tiny mink coat, inspects it, decides it's perfect, and puts
it on the hook. He stands, does a flawless overhead cast, and sends the lure
flying into the sea.
A city street in Beverly Hills is double exposed with a bubbling fish tank,
making the whole scene look like it's underwater. A beautiful woman comes out of
Bijan's, heading to her car. She spies a mink coat lying on the sidewalk. She
looks around to see who it belongs to. Spying no one, she sneaks up to it and
quickly puts it on.
The man on the pier feels a tug on the line and immediately starts reeling
it in.
The woman in Beverly Hills shrieks as she lifts off the ground and quickly
flies into the sky.
The man takes out his net, reels in the woman, and nets her. Like King
Kong, he gently takes her out of the net, removes the hook from the coat, and
inspects his prize. She is quite a beauty. He holds her up against a chart to
make sure she's above the legal size, then he throws her into the
bucket.
Inside the bucket, the woman looks around for a means of escape but finds
none.
The man looks through his tackle box for another lure. He finds an
incredible shiny diamond bracelet, puts it on the hook, and casts
again.
In an underwater mall, a lovely young girl in a sports outfit sees
something glistening on the floor. She stops to tie her shoe, looks around, and
grabs the bracelet. She stands, looks at it closely, then puts it
on.
The man feels another tug on the line and starts reeling it
in.
The young girl in the sports outfit in the underwater mall gives a yelp as
she is lifted up by the wrist and goes flying into the sky.
The man reels her in and nets her. When he inspects her, he gets a bit
puzzled. He reaches into his box and pulls out a copy of "The Observer's Guide
to American Women." He discovers she's a "full-blooded Cherokee Indian -
extremely rare." He is extremely pleased with his Indian maiden. He throws her
into the bucket with his other catch of the day, then hunts for another
lure.
In the bucket, the two women look at each other in puzzlement. One climbs
on the other's shoulders to escape but the top is too high and she
falls.
Time passes. In rapid succession, the man catches a choir girl using a set
of rosary beads, a biker chick using a Harley, and a hippie beauty with a
spectacular nug.
The sun starts setting. The man looks in his bucket. It is full of
beautiful women of all shapes and sizes, who are building a human pyramid to
escape their mysterious fate. He decides to call it a day.
He puts away his hook and takes apart his rod and reel. He relaxes, removes
a sandwich from his tackle box, and takes a bite. Suddenly, he goes flying into
the air.
On another pier, a lonesome ugly woman reels in her prize, a miniature
lonesome ugly man. She laughs.
Working together, all the female catches manage to overturn the bucket.
They all exit the bucket, walk across the pier, and jump back into the
sea.
The man's captor inspects him, looking him up in "The Observer's Guide to
Aging British Male Rock Stars." She decides he's just fine, and throws him into
her bucket.
The man looks around. His jaw drops. With him in the bucket are Phil
Collins, Rod Stewart, Elton John, and a guy who looks like Pete
Townsend.
The woman packs up her gear and walks into the sunset with her rod, reel,
and bucket.
The End
ADDENDUM: It's a running gag. The final joke can be rewritten hundreds of
different ways by simply changing the title of the book. Make it "The Observer's
Guide to Overrated Assholes" and fill the bucket accordingly. Hell, make it a
game, like JibJab, let people fill in the faces. You have my permission to
rewrite the ending any way you want.
Marian the Teacher was first, and correct, with:
Soupy Sales and he was from my neck of the woods and I never got his humor.
mj answered:
If I'm guessing correctly
It's the guy who was kicked off the tube more than once.
C, Mr. Sales.
and his little critter, White Fang who insisted on seeing K.
Baron Dave ("I'm entitled to a few quirks." - Gary Tesser) responded:
Soupy Sales!
He had a kids show from NYC that I used to watch all the time. Who
needs reality tv when dumb jokes can be recycled for kids?
Alan J replied:
Soupy Sales
ducks said:
once again, going with a guess but the only person I can see doing the mouse is Soupy Sales. I have a longshot backup guess but I figure that's cheating if I tell you. (shhh MB)
Charlie answered:
Nowadays, a song called "Do the Mouse" would probably make most people think of computers, but in 1965 it was unambiguously the small mammals being referenced by
C: Soupy Sales
Ed K replied:
C. Soupy Sales, the Pee Wee Herman of the 60's.
MAM responded:
It was Soupy Sales! He performed "The Mouse" on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1965.
PURPLE GENE answered:
MILTON SUPMAN HAD A TV SHOW IN THE 60'S CALLED THE "SOUPY SALES SHOW".
HE HAD CELEBRITY GUESTS, PIE IN THE FACE SEGMENTS AND HIS REGULAR PUPPETS......WHITE FANG, BLACK TOOTH, HIPPIE THE HIPPO AND POOKIE THE LION.
HE HAD A DANCE CRAZE ON THE SHOW CALLED "DO THE MOUSE".....HE ACTUALLY PERFORMED IT ON THE "ED SULLIVAN SHOW" ON THE SAME NIGHT THAT THE BEATLES PLAYED.
SOUPY DOES HAVE A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME!
THE ANSWER IS C......SOUPY SALES!
And, Sally said:
Of course Soupy Sales (C) recorded a novelty song entitled "Do the Mouse!" (Adored Soupy, the man who elevated pie-tossing to an art form...)
PS I am not trying to compete with Marianne here (her pics were wonderful, and I am enjoying them very much) but I took over 500 pics on my recent venture to Colorado. I wanted to capture that which my grandkids will never see in another 30 years. We traveled on "back roads" and saw so much of the countryside being destroyed by the big "professional" farmers, all growing that "ethanol" type of corn and soybeans. If you could see the pesticide spraying going on from the air and from sprayers, it would make you ill. It blows in the air, and leeches underground and is probably killing us to boot. And, except for the huge "Walmart's" (average distance from Anytown, Midwest USA to said W/mart, is 60 miles) town after town were nothing but gas stations, and in the towns over 7K population, dollar stores (plus, second hand stores). Sad, but OTOH, a three bedroom house can be bought there for under 40K! (Avg house in Northern, NJ, is 1MM!)
Anyway, I will have a few better shots later on, but for now, the photo, capturing a yard full of hand-painted plaster-of-Paris deer (BIG seller all across the Midwest) just made me laugh out loud. Coming from Jersey, we NEVER see anything like this. (Should you put one out in a yard, it would be stolen or receive some snappy graffiti faster than you could whistle ""NYNY!" )
Hope you all will enjoy my humor...
Thanks to Charlie, Marianne, PURPLE GENE, and Sally for the pictures.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular', followed by a FRESH'Criminal Minds', then a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Matthew Broderick, Heidi Montag, and Josh Groban.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Jeff Bridges, Valerie Edmond, and Grand Archives.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno (R-Enabler) are Cindy "The 'C' Word" McCain, Ed Helms, and Augustana.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Chef Gordon Ramsay, and Feist.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly is Romany Malco.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'Supernanny', then a FRESH'Boston Legal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Angie Harmon, Chef Adam Perry Lang, and Def Leppard.
The CW has a FRESH'America's Next Top Model', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Farmer Wants A Wife'.
Faux has a FRESH'Til Death', followed by a FRESH'Back To You', then a FRESH'American Idol'.
MY has a FRESH'Under One Roof', followed by a recycled 'In Living Colr', then the RERUN'Breaking The Magician's Code'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Shootist', followed by the movie 'Hang 'Em High', then the movie 'The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 26 Shepton Mallet 12
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 27 Carmarthen 28
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 15
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 1 Sister Hood
[9:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 8 Celebrity
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 1 Sister Hood
[12:00 AM] MI-5 - Ep 8 Celebrity
[1:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 1 Sister Hood
[2:00 AM] MI-5 - Ep 8 Celebrity
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.3 Taunton
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.4 Winchester
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 26 Shepton Mallet 12
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 27 Carmarthen 28
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 1
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Lewis Black's Root Of All Evil'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Robert Schlesinger.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Noah Feldman.
FX has the movie 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith', followed by the movie 'Double Jeopardy', then the movie 'Double Jeopardy', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'MonsterQuest', and 'UFO Hunters'.
IFC -
[07:50 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[08:50 AM] IFC News Reports From the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
[09:00 AM] The Glass Shield
[11:00 AM] The Children of Paradise
[02:15 PM] Undertow
[04:10 PM] IFC News Reports From the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
[04:15 PM] The Glass Shield
[06:15 PM] Raging Bull
[08:30 PM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman #2
[09:00 PM] State of Grace
[11:20 PM] IFC News Reports From the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
[11:30 PM] Bad Lieutenant
[01:15 AM] State of Grace
[03:30 AM] Bad Lieutenant
[05:15 AM] Raging Bull (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', still another 'Ghost Hunters', and 'Destination Truth'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Bodies, Rest & Motion
[06:45 AM] Buried in the Backyard
[07:30 AM] Romántico
[09:00 AM] Episode 8
[10:00 AM] When We Were Kings
[11:30 AM] Flower & Garnet
[01:15 PM] Funny Ha Ha
[03:00 PM] Everything's Gone Green
[04:45 PM] Emile
[06:30 PM] The Apostle
[09:00 PM] Episode 1
[10:00 PM] The Yacoubian Building
[01:00 AM] Episode 1
[01:30 AM] Last Wedding
[03:15 AM] Music Rising
[04:00 AM] Episode 2
[05:00 AM] The Apostle (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Sally Field arrives at The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presentation of A Conversation with 'Brothers & Sisters' Monday, April 28, 2008, in the North Hollywood area of Los Angeles.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Organizers of a major California music festival are offering a $10,000 reward and four festival tickets for life in exchange for ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters' two-story inflatable pig, which was lost on Sunday night.
Waters' signature pig was seen floating away during his closing set at the three-day Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival, held in the desert east of Los Angeles.
The giant flying pig, part of Pink Floyd's stage show since their 1977 album "Animals" featuring the song "Pigs on the Wing," broke free from its tethers above the Coachella crowd and drifted off.
It's not the first time Waters has lost his flying pig. Back in 1977, it floated away on the second day of a photo shoot at the Battersea Power Station in London and was later recovered and used for an album cover.
Talk show host Jerry Springer accepted an invitation to give the commencement address at Northwestern University School of Law, despite student-generated petitions and blogs claiming he is an unsuitable choice.
A group of law students chose Springer for the May 16 event and faculty approved the decision last week. Springer, a former Cincinnati mayor who hosts "The Jerry Springer Show," is a 1968 graduate of the law school.
"As always, I am honored to have been asked, flattered that the students invited me," Springer said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "And as for those who didn't want me, it just shows they have good taste."
Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation.
"Gary Snyder is in essence a contemporary devotional poet, though he is not devoted to any one god or way of being so much as to Being itself," Christian Wiman, chair of the selection committee, said in a statement Tuesday.
"His poetry is a testament to the sacredness of the natural world and our relation to it, and a prophecy of what we stand to lose if we forget that relation."
Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix. The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the footage of the music legend shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago from a memorabilia collector.
The footage features Hendrix engaging in various sexual acts with two women, according to a statement released by Vivid. The company said they consulted with several experts to authenticate the footage.
Vivid Entertainment was also responsible for the release of celebrity sex tapes starring Kim Kardahsian and Pamela Anderson.
CBS Corp and GE's NBC Universal plan to bid for the Weather Channel in the second round, with bids expected to range between $3.5 billion and $4 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Privately held Landmark Communications, which has put the channel up for sale along with other businesses, had originally sought $5 billion for the asset, sources have said. The sources asked not to be identified because the talks are confidential.
The Weather Channel produces continuous, 24-hour national, regional and local weather-related programs and is received by more than 96 million U.S. households. It can be seen in more than 97 percent of all cable TV homes nationwide.
Gary Dourdan, a cast member on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," was booked on drug charges after being found asleep in his car in Palm Springs, police reported on Tuesday.
An officer spotted a car parked on the wrong side of Sunny Dunes Road near Gene Autry Trail around 5:20 a.m. Sunday and spotted a man inside when he approached the vehicle, said Palm Springs police Sgt. Mitch Spike.
"The officer described Durdin as disoriented and possibly under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs," Spike said. "(He) subsequently located suspected cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, miscellaneous prescription drugs andparaphernalia (in the car)."
Dourdan, 41, of Venice, was taken to the Palm Springs Jail, where he was booked on suspicion of possession of narcotics and dangerous drugs. He was released after posting $5,000 bail.
CBS News journalist Richard Butler said he believes he was kidnapped in Iraq by policemen with sympathies toward the Hezbollah but isn't entirely sure who held him captive for two months or why.
Butler, a British journalist kidnapped with his interpreter on Feb. 10, was rescued by Iraqi troops on April 14 when he was found with a sack over his head in a house in Basra.
Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq than taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan.
"I was pleased I wasn't being mortarboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an Al-Jazeera cameraman, for instance," he said.
A former hospital worker implicated in the theft of medical records for "Charlie's Angels" star Farrah Fawcett, Gov. Arnold $chwarzenegger's wife and some 60 other celebrities and selling them to the media has been indicted on federal charges.
Lawanda Jackson, a former low-level administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, was charged in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday with illegally obtaining medical information for sale.
Jackson told the paper in an interview for its April 9 edition that she pried into the records because she was "just being nosy" and hadn't "leaked" the private information to anyone else.
But the indictment, which was handed down by a U.S. District Court grand jury that same day, accuses her of accepting $4,600 from an unnamed "national media outlet" in exchange for the information.
Richard Wagner's grandson is resigning after 57 years as director of the Bayreuth Festival, officials said Tuesday, but the long-running family feuds over who will succeed him are set to continue.
Officially, it was not yet known who will succeed Wagner as director of the prestigious annual festival nor when he would formally step down, Markus Gnad, spokesman for the Bavarian culture ministry said.
However, observers see it as a done-deal that his two daughters, Eva, 63, and Katharina, 29, will run Bayreuth jointly.
Alongside them, there is a third pretender to the throne, Nike Wagner, the 62-year-old daughter of Wolfgang's late brother Wieland.
Erinn Cosby, right, daughter of comedian Bill Cosby, passes out new books to kindergartners at Southside Elementary Museums Magnet School, part of a gift of 20,000 free reading books to 200 classrooms in Miami from the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation Monday April 28, 2008. The non-profit educational charity was set up by Bill and Camille Cosby in memory of their son Ennis Cosby. Ennis was completing the last few credits for his master's degree in education at Columbia University and student-teaching at the time of his death.
Photo by David Adame
First, there was a run on energy-efficient light bulbs. When those ran out, people began asking for lamp oil. But when they started demanding clothespins in this land of mist and rain, it was clear Alaska's capital city was caught in a serious energy crunch.
Avalanches earlier this month knocked down transmission lines and cut off Juneau's source of low-cost hydroelectric power. Threatened with a fivefold increase in utility bills, Juneau quickly powered down.
Stores, though open, went partially dark. Neon signs were switched off and vending machines unplugged. At home, residents of this former Gold Rush town began living a little bit like pioneers, dusting the snow off the grill, stringing clotheslines in the backyard and flicking off their TV sets. Within a week, electrical usage across town was down as much as 30 percent.
With oil prices reaching a record $120 a barrel, Alaska Electric Light and Power said customers might have to pay for an extra $25 million in diesel over the three months it would take to repair the lines. The utility warned that rates would probably leap from an average of 11 cents per kilowatt-hour to more than 50 cents, or about five times the 10.3 cents that is the national average.
The mission was to get Simba al-Tikriti out of Iraq and to a new life in Britain.
First, a roadside bomb nearly wiped out the taxi heading to the border with Kuwait. The next step was to hide under tarps in the back of a truck. More hardship awaited: six months caged by authorities in England. But freedom eventually came for Simba, who walked away from captivity with tail held high.
"Some people buy flash cars, others flash clothes. But it's my animals that float my boat," said Louise, a security consultant in Baghdad who moonlights as a one-woman animal rescue unit.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for April 21-27. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (1) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.74 million viewers.
2. (2) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 23.2 million viewers.
3. (4) "Dancing with the Stars" (Monday), ABC, 18.04 million viewers.
4. (8) "Dancing with the Stars" (Tuesday), ABC, 17.97 million viewers.
5. (9) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 17.02 million viewers.
6. (11) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 16.37 million viewers.
7. (6) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 16.35 million viewers.
8. (15) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 14.38 million viewers.
9. (14) "NCIS," CBS, 14.24 million viewers.
10. (18) "Without a Trace," CBS, 13.47 million viewers.
11. (16) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.36 million viewers.
12. (16) "Survivor: Micronesia," CBS, 12.9 million viewers.
13. (34) "Law & Order," NBC, 12.75 million viewers.
14. (18) "Lost," ABC, 12.08 million viewers.
15. (18) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 12.07 million viewers.
16. (27) "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit," NBC, 11.64 million viewers.
17. (31) "Cold Case," CBS, 11.62 million viewers.
18. (34) "Brothers and Sisters," ABC, 11.19 million viewers.
19. (27) "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 10.98 million viewers.
20. (34) "Rules of Engagement," CBS, 10.57 million viewers.
Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.
The cause was a heart attack, said Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a California-based group that in 2005 republished Dr. Hofmann's 1979 book "LSD: My Problem Child."
Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid.
He then took LSD hundreds of times, but regarded it as a powerful and potentially dangerous psychotropic drug that demanded respect. More important to him than the pleasures of the psychedelic experience was the drug's value as a revelatory aid for contemplating and understanding what he saw as humanity's oneness with nature. That perception, of union, which came to Dr. Hofmann as almost a religious epiphany while still a child, directed much of his personal and professional life.
Dr. Hofmann went on to study chemistry at Zurich University because, he said, he wanted to explore the natural world at the level where energy and elements combine to create life. He earned his Ph.D. there in 1929, when he was just 23. He then took a job with Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, attracted by a program there that sought to synthesize pharmacological compounds from medicinally important plants.
It was during his work on the ergot fungus, which grows in rye kernels, that he stumbled on LSD, accidentally ingesting a trace of the compound one Friday afternoon in April 1943. Soon he experienced an altered state of consciousness similar to the one he had experienced as a child.
On the following Monday, he deliberately swallowed a dose of LSD and rode his bicycle home as the effects of the drug overwhelmed him. That day, April 19, later became memorialized by LSD enthusiasts as "bicycle day."
After his discovery of LSD's properties, Dr. Hofmann spent years researching sacred plants. With his friend R. Gordon Wasson, he participated in psychedelic rituals with Mazatec shamans in southern Mexico. He succeeded in synthesizing the active compounds in the Psilocybe mexicana mushroom, which he named psilocybin and psilocin. He also isolated the active compound in morning glory seeds, which the Mazatec also used as an intoxicant, and found that its chemical structure was close to that of LSD.
He and his wife, Anita, who died recently, reared four children in Basel. A son died of alcoholism at 53. Survivors include several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Golden Frogs, one of the most venomous species of frog, sit on a log in the zoo in Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, April 29, 2008.
Photo by Christian Escobar Mora
You have reached the Home page of BartCop Entertainment.
Make yourself home, take your shoes off...
Go ahead, scratch it if it itches.
The idea is to have fun.
Do you have something to say?
Anything that increased your blood pressure, or, even better,
amused or entertained?
Do you have a great album no one's heard?
How about a favorite TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or legal amusement?
A popular artist that just plain pisses you off?
A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican musicians?
Just plain vile, filthy rumors?
This is your place.
Who recorded a novelty song entitled "Do the Mouse"?
